He heard ḥadith from: Yahya ibn Yahya, Ahmad ibn Amr al-Harashi, and Ibn Rahwayh.
In Rayy he studied under: Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Farraʾ and Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Jaʿfar.
In Baghdad: ʿAli ibn al-Jaʿd, al-Hakam ibn Musa, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Qawariri, and others of their rank.
In Basra: Abu al-Walid, Sulayman ibn Harb, Musaddad, al-Rabiʿ ibn Yahya, ʿAli ibn ʿUthman al-Lahiqi, Muhammad ibn Kathir, Sahl ibn Bakkar, al-Hawdi, and ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muʿadh.
In Kufa: Ahmad ibn Yunus, Saʿid ibn al-Ashʿathi, and Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn al-Mundhir.
In the Hijaz: Ismaʿil ibn Abi Uways, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam al-Misri, Saʿid ibn Mansur, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Shafiʿi, and Muhriz ibn Salamah.
Those who transmitted from him include: his father, al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Qabbani, Abu ʿAmr Ahmad ibn Nasr, Ibrahim ibn Abi Talib, Ibn Khuzaymah, and al-Sarrāj.
I would add: Muhammad ibn Salih ibn Haniʾ and Muhammad ibn Yaʿqub ibn al-Akhram ⦗1⦘.
According to the book al-Kamal ⦗2⦘, Ibn Majah is also said to have narrated from him, but we have found no such report ⦗3⦘.
(1) Al-Akhram – spelled with an undotted r – is Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Yaqub ibn Yusuf ibn al-Akhram al-Shaybani al-Naysaburi, a muhaddith and hafiz who died in 344 AH.
(2) Its full title is Al-Kamal fi Maʿrifat al-Rijal by the hafiz Abd al-Ghani ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (d. 600 AH). The work covers the transmitters of the Six Canonical Books and served as the primary source for al-Hafiz al-Mizzi when compiling his monumental Tadhhib al-Kamal. For details, see the introduction written by Dr. Bashar Awwad to Tadhhib al-Kamal, Muassasat al-Risalah.
(3) Ibn Hajar states in Tahdhib, 11/276: Ibn Majah narrates from him in the chapter “The ears are part of the head” in the Book of Purification: “Haddathana Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya; Haddathana Amr ibn al-Husayn…,” and he then quotes the hadith. Ibn Hajar adds: “I found this wording in a very old, reliable manuscript, whereas some copies read ‘Haddathana Muhammad ibn Yahya’ instead of ‘Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya’; Allah knows best.” The present editor notes: in the printed edition of Sunan Ibn Majah (no. 445) the reading is “Haddathana Muhammad ibn Yahya.”